Solaris MOBI Ê Kindle Edition

Solaris MOBI Ê Kindle Edition Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the worldHis works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology the nature of intelligence the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe They are sometimes presented as fiction but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books Translations of his works are difficult and multiple translated versions of his works existLem became truly productive after when the de Stalinization period led to the Polish October when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech Between and Lem authored books His works were widely translated abroad although mostly in the Eastern Bloc countries In he published his first non fiction philosophical book Dialogi Dialogues one of his two most famous philosophical texts along with Summa Technologiae The Summa is notable for being a uniue analysis of prospective social cybernetic and biological advances In this work Lem discusses philosophical implications of technologies that were completely in the realm of science fiction then but are gaining importance today—like for instance virtual reality and nanotechnology Over the next few decades he published many books both science fiction and philosophicalfuturological although from the s onwards he tended to concentrate on philosophical texts and essaysHe gained international fame for The Cyberiad a series of humorous short stories from a mechanical universe ruled by robots first published in English in His best known novels include Solaris His Master's Voice Głos pana and the late Fiasco Fiasko expressing most strongly his major theme of the futility of mankind's attempts to comprehend the truly alien Solaris was made into a film in by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in ; in Steven Soderbergh directed a Hollywood remake starring George ClooneyHe was the cousin of poet.